Chuda Prasad Dhakal, PhD Institute of Agriculture and Animal Sciences, Tribhuvan University 1. Background Statistics can be defined as the science of learning from data. According to Sermento and Costa (2019), one of its primary goals is to extract information from data to gain a better understanding of the situations it represents. Statistical analysis, on the other hand, involves investigating trends, patterns, and relationships using quantitative data (A step-by-step guide to statistical analysis, n.d.). DePoy et al. (2016) also note that statistical analysis involves the organization and interpretation of data according to well-defined, systematic, and mathematical procedures and rules. In…
